home publications > mercury . ... Attacking Mars . ... It was a cool night in 1894, and American businessman-turned- astronomer Percival Lowell sat back in his observing chair and relaxed. For the past hour he had been hard at work at his telescope on yet another sketch of the planet Mars, and this one, he told himself, was the best. ... Because the canals were so distinct. ... Over the years, Lowell observed and sketched the Red Planet and its canals [see "Seeing Is Believing," p. 24]. ...

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Next: Bibliography Up: R Coronae Borealis Stars Previous: Other Hydrogen-Deficient Stars . ... It remains to be shown that pulsations in all RCB stars provide the necessary conditions for dust nucleation to occur at this distance. ... The strength of a stellar absorption line represents the ratio of line opacity to continuous opacity in the atmosphere; both are related to the number density of the absorbing atoms and so provide the number ratio of line absorbers to continuum absorbers. ...

Date: 11/22/2014 Time:23:10 Moon Age: -0.2 Available Observing Hours: 12.9 Observer: Instrument: Operator: Cage: Lebofsky, Bell 90Prime Trueblood PF hours lost to: weather: 2.0 telescope: 0.0 instrument: 0.0 computer: 0.0 Time Temp Humidity Wind Vel. ... When 90P Expose is clicked on hh:mm:00, the Exposure setup msg appears ~2 sec later, which is also the time in the FITS header. The Integration Started msg appears ~8 sec later on red window, about ~5 sec later than time in FITS header. ...

... ON APPLICATION OF MULTI-FREQUENCY SYNTHESIS FOR RADIOASTRON MISSION. ... The first problem for RadioAstron mission for K-band will improved with using a new LNA / probably identical to . ... For RadioAstron mission it is proposed to operate one K-band circular polarized channel at fixed frequency 22.232 GHz. ... B. One circular polarization channel operates at frequency F0 and the opposite polarization channel operates at minimal frequency F-4. ... Signal and LO frequencies. ...

Australasian Science February, 2009 Page: 44 General News Region: National Circulation: 9000 Type: Magazines Science / Technology Size: 307.82 sq.cms Monthly back Cosmic Coincidence Is Not So Surprising T he "cosmic coincidence" is the term given to the observation that we seem to exist at an odd point in the Universe's history. ... The cosmic coincidence lies in the fact that the point where the proportions of matter and energy in the Universe crossed appears to have occurred relatively recently. ...

OptInt PmWiki . Pm Wiki / . ... This page gives suggestions for upgrading an existing PmWiki 1.x installation to use PmWiki 2.0. In this page we assume that a site administrator already has a site running using PmWiki version 1.x or earlier in a somewhat standard configuration, and wants to upgrade to the 2.0 software. ... The approach given here allows the administrator to install, configure, and test PmWiki 2.0 on an existing set of pages without risking an existing 1.x installation. ...

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Instruments and Methods 125 Long time tracking of the Sun with RATAN-600 in Radio Schmidt mode V.B. Khaikin, E.K. Ma jorova, I.G. E mov, O.A. Victorov, V.M. Bogod, and S.Kh. ... Cosmic source tracking with unmovable main mirror in a form of cylinder requires a special secondary mirror of double curvature 12 m size or a phased array in the focal plane of an ordinary secondary mirror Ka jdanovskij, 1980. ... Fig. 4 shows the Sun tracking with new drive in speed control mode starting from meridian. ...

Large sunspots were occasionally seen far in the past without any instruments, when the sun was dimmed by thick haze, but not much was remembered of those observations. ... Sunspot Cycle (1850 - 1975) . One who was greatly influenced by Schwabe's discovery was an English gentleman of independent means, Richard Christopher Carrington , who devoted himself to the study of sunspots. ... Carrington had seen a flare, of the rare variety that is visible in white light (only about 50 are known). ...

... Simple X-ray Aperture Photometry Problem : Determine source intensity s and errors for an unresolved (point) x-ray source Know: · Number of counts , C, in source aperture (solid green ellipse) · Number of counts , B, in background aperture (dashed green elliptical annulus) · Areas As and Ab of source and background apertures · f = psf(x,y)dx dy over source aperture · g = psf(x,y)dx dy over background ... What happens if the single observation pdf 's are distinct? ...

... Allows webmasters to configure the response of Apache to some error or problem. Customizable responses can be defined to be activated in the event of a server detected error or problem. e.g. if a script crashes and produces a "500 Server Error" response, then this response can be replaced with either some friendlier text or by a redirection to another URL (local or external). ... New behavior . ... redirect to a local URL, or . ... Each new variable will have the prefix REDIRECT_ . ...

Russian SHAREABLE DATA CENTER Institute of Solar-Terrestial Physics SB RAS . ... Chirp ionosonde main technical characteristics . ... Linear frequency modulated continuous signals sounding method is relatively simple and has wide application in various special-purpose systems. ... Chirp signals which are applying for ionosphere channel diagnostics usually have10KHz/s -- 1MHz/s. We must point out that under modulation speed increasing there is an increase in noise suppression and resolution power. ...

GRANAT is the Russian x-ray sattelite launched to the high apogee orbit (200,000 km) and operated almost for 10 years (1989 -1999) , carrying out four major instruments: French SIGMA coded-mask hard x-ray telescope (30-1000 keV), Soviet ART-P coded-mask telescope (2??-60?? keV), all-sky monitor WATCH (6-150 keV), and a gamma-burst detector PHEBUS . ... Since September 1994, GRANAT is in the survey mode. ... Explore pages devoted to individual GRANAT instruments (including main scientific results): . ...

... TOPOLOGICAL AND METRIC SPACES TOPOLOGY-1, SPRING 2012 Г. of a Hausdor space is closed; (c) the image of a compact space under a continuous map is compact. Problem 2. Let A Rn be a closed subset, let C Rn be a compact subset. ... A subset K R is compact if and only if it is bounded and closed. ... Prove that (a) the image of a connected space under a continuous map is connected; (b) the same, for path connectedness; (c) an open subset in Rn is connected if and only if it is path connected. ...

... Moore Observatory is a research and advanced teaching facility of the University of Louisville. ... The 24-inch Ritchie Chretien (RC24) telescope is a research instrument used by faculty and graduate students involved in studies of exoplanets, optical properties of the atmosphere, and the development of imaging and spectroscopic technology. ... Kent (CDK20S) are collaboratively operated by the University of Louisville and the University of Southern Queensland for both research and education. ...

A problem, that can arise when moving from Fortran 77 to Fortran 90, is dependent on a usual deviation from the standard, and has to do especially with user programs. ... With many Fortran 77 implementations we wrote PROGRAM TEST REAL X WRITE(*,10) 10 FORMAT('Give X = ',$) READ(*,*) X WRITE(*,*) X END In Fortran 90 we use "non-advancing I/O" instead. ... In some old Fortran dialects the statement TYPE was used to write on a typewriter terminal and PRINT was used to write on the line printer. ...

Next: Initial conditions Up: Old neutron star distribution Previous: Introduction . The problem to be solved is to find stationary space distribution of stars which have had certain initial space and velocity distributions and move in a given potential. ... In principle, the most straightforward way to obtain the solution is to integrate directly the equations of motion for a sufficiently large number of stars with different initial conditions. ... Then space density is given by . ...